Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship being held in New York after ...

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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special ...

LONDON — Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," has died, her family ...

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel's army detained the director of one of northern Gaza 's last functioning hospitals as ...

Discrimination based on someone's age is so ingrained in society that most of us don't notice it. Yet it affects us all and ...

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The Kremlin said air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike as the Azerbaijani airliner ...

Holidays ran into each other for our multi-faith family this week. The first night of Hanukkah fell on Wednesday — Christmas ...

A man who has been running on Miami Beach every day for the past 50 years is getting a street named for him. We catch up with him on one of his runs.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Maggie Rowe and Emily Garcés, the hosts of the podcast "50 Words for Snow," about words English needs but does not have.

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to delay a law banning TikTok next month. It comes just weeks before TikTok and the Department of Justice are set to argue in front of the high ...